Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0565

E Relating to telecommunications ARTICLE 1 TELECOMMUNICATIONS
PRIVACY"Telecommunications Consumer Privacy Act"; providing for the privacy of
telecommunications customer information; imposing a duty of confidentiality on
telecommunications service providers, regulating disclosure of customer
information, requiring specific express prior consent, exceptions; classifying
customer information obtained by government entities from telecommunications
service providers; requiring and providing for notice to customers by
telecommunications service providers of request for customer consent and
specifying certain consent requirements, providing for enforcement by the
attorney general; requiring the public utilities commission to require
telecommunications service providers providing local telecommunications services
to provide subscriber list information upon request for telephone directories
publication purposes, defining subscriber list information; protecting the
authority of the PUC to disclose information, restricting telecommunications
service provider disclosure of information obtained under PUC authority ARTICLE
2 INTERNET CONSUMER PROTECTIONProhibiting false or misleading commercial
electronic mail messages, providing for the award of damages for violation;
authorizing interactive computer services to block the receipt or transmission
of commercial electronic mail reasonably believed to be in violation of the
prohibition; restricting the disclosure of personally identifiable information
on consumers by interactive services providers, prohibiting the use of
information obtained in violation of the restrictions as evidence and providing
for the award of damages for violation (mk, ja)